Nawaf al-Hazmi

Nawaf al-Hazmi (9 August 1976-11 September 2001) was an al-Qaeda member from Saudi Arabia and 9/11 hijacker.

Biography
Nawaf al-Hazmi was born in 9 August 1976 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and in 1995 al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar left their homes to fight in the Bosnian War with the Bosnian Mujahideen before fighting alongside the Taliban against the Northern Alliance in the Afghan Civil War. His brother Salem al-Hazmi joined Nawaf as a member of the al-Qaeda group around this time, being trained in Afghanistan. With extensive fighting experience, Nawaf was chosen by Osama bin Laden to hijack American planes and destroy the World Trade Center, and he helped Hani Hanjour in hijacking American Airlines Flight 77 and crashing it into the Pentagon.